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Law Faculty Furloughs, Pay Cuts, Pay Freezes, and Hiring Freezes

Posted on February 12, 2009
The economic downturn has resulted in current, future, or threatened furloughs, pay cuts, pay freezes, and hiring freezes at over a dozen law schools: Arizona Arizona State Baltimore Brooklyn Chicago Florida State Iowa Maine Maryland Missouri (Columbia) Missouri (Kansas City)...

Schwabish Presents The Effects of Earnings Inequality on State Social Spending Today at UCLA

Posted on February 12, 2009
Jonathan Schwabish (Congressional Budget Office) presents The Effects of Earnings Inequality on State Social Spending in the United States at UCLA today as part of its Tax Policy and Public Finance Colloquium Series moderated by Kirk J. Stark and Eric...

Lawsky Presents Dynamic Drafting: A Tax Code Case Study Today at Indiana

Posted on February 12, 2009
Sarah B. Lawsky (George Washington) presents Dynamic Drafting: A Tax Code Case Study at Indiana today as part of its Tax Policy Coloquium Series hosted by Leandra Lederman. Here is the abstract: This essay introduces the concepts of "static drafting"...

Perkins Coie Sues Ex-IP Associate for $36k Advance for Law School Tuition and Bar Exam Prep Expenses

Posted on February 12, 2009
The American Lawyer: Perkins Coie Sues Ex-IP Associate Who Left Firm for Rival, by Brian Baxter: Perkins Coie ... filed a breach of contract suit against former IP associate David Xue in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland on January...

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HeinOnline Citation Rankings

Posted on February 12, 2009
HeinOnline has released the 50 Most Cited Authors among the 150,000 authors in its Law Journal Library as determined by its new ScholarCheck citation analysis tool. The list includes the number of articles written by each author as well as...

LSU Wins National Tax Moot Court Competition

Posted on February 12, 2009
LSU (Amanda Stephens, Bridget Hillebrand, David Conachen) won the National Tax Moot Court Competition for the second year in a row, beating Florida in the final round. The competition, sponsored by the Florida Bar Association Tax Secton, was held last...

Conferees Scale Back NOL Provision

Posted on February 12, 2009
The conferees have scaled back the House ($15 billion) and Senate $19.5 billion) expansion of the NOL carryback rules with a a new $5 billion provision targeted exclusively at small businesses with up to $5 million of annual revenue. Bloomberg...

Golfer Jim Thorpe Charged With Failing to Pay $1.6m Taxes

Posted on February 12, 2009
The Department of Justice yesterday charged golfer Jim Thorpe with failing to pay over $1.6 million in taxes in 2002-2004, during which period he earned over $5.2 million of income. Thorpe has won over $13 million in his career on...

5th Circuit Reverses Tax Evasion Acquittal of Former NBA Player Carl Herrera

Posted on February 12, 2009
The Fifth Circuit yesterday reversed the district court's tax evasion acquittal of Carl Herrera, who averaged 5.3 points per game in eight NBA seasons. United States v. Herrera, No. 08-50028 (5th Cir. Feb. 11, 2009) A jury found Carl Herrera...

Windfall Profits Tax on Wall Street Bonuses?

Posted on February 12, 2009
Hartford Courant: State Should Tax Wall Street Windfall Bonuses, by Jeffrey Tebbs (J.D. 2010, Yale)& Ady Barkan (J.D. 2010, Yale): We propose that Connecticut levy a windfall tax of 50% on the cash bonuses received by any executive working for...

IRS Releases Report on Tax-Exempt Hospitals

Posted on February 12, 2009
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Politico Asks 99 Senators: What About Your Taxes?

Posted on February 11, 2009
Politico: For Senators, Tax Questions Are Taxing: Last week, Politico asked the offices of all 99 sitting senators to say who prepares their taxes, whether they or the Internal Revenue Service has ever discovered an error on returns they?ve filed,...

Kane Presents "Tax Treaties as Tools for Development Finance" Today at Toronto

Posted on February 11, 2009
Mitchell Kane (NYU) presents Bootstraps and Poverty Traps: Tax Treaties as Novel Tools for Development Finance at the University of Toronto today as part of the James Hausman Tax Law and Policy Workshop Series. Here is a brief description of...

Faculty Union Leader Calls for Moratorium on U.S. News Rankings

Posted on February 11, 2009
See today's Chronicle of Higher Education.

Legal Times: Why Do Smart People Make Such Stupid Tax Mistakes?

Posted on February 11, 2009
Legal Times Commentary: Shot in the Foot: Income Tax Mistakes Are Often Made by People Who Think They're So Smart: In the midst of the financial crisis, when nerves seem rawer than ever, the most intense attention has been placed...

Schenk & Grossman: The Failure of Tax Incentives for Education

Posted on February 11, 2009
Deborah Schenk (NYU) & Andrew L. Grossman (Skadden, Washington, D.C.) have published The Failure of Tax Incentives for Education, 61 Tax L. Rev. 295 (2008). Here is the abstract: Federal aid to higher education has shifted over the last decade...

Wal-Mart Offers Free Tax Preparation Services

Posted on February 11, 2009
The Wal-Mart Foundation yesterday announced a $3.6 million grant to provide free tax prepararion services for taxpayers earning less than $56,000 per year through Mobile Tax Center vans which will be set up in various Wal-Mart parking lots for two...

Is Marion Barry Angling for a Cabinet Appointment?

Posted on February 11, 2009
Washington Post: Prosecutors Want Barry Jailed Over Tax Returns, by Del Quentin Wilber: For the second time in two years, frustrated federal prosecutors took aim at Marion Barry's chronic failure to file his tax returns and urged a judge to...

Polsky: Private Equity Management Fee Conversions

Posted on February 11, 2009
Gregg D. Polsky (Florida State) has published Private Equity Management Fee Conversions, 122 Tax Notes 743 (Feb. 9, 2009). Here is the abstract: Because of the uproar over "carried interests," it seems that almost everyone knows that the tax law...

Hasen: The Tax Treatment of Advance Receipts

Posted on February 11, 2009
David M. Hasen (Michigan) has published The Tax Treatment of Advance Receipts, 61 Tax L. Rev. 395 (2008). Here is the abstract: Under the present income tax, some advance receipts are neither taxable on receipt nor deductible on repayment, while...

Riggall: Should Tax Informants Be Paid? The Law and Economics of a Government Monopsony

Posted on February 11, 2009
Kneave Riggall has published Should Tax Informants Be Paid? The Law and Economics of a Government Monopsony, 28 Va. Tax Rev. 237 (2008). Here is the abstract: More than 140 years ago, the U.S. Government began to solicit information about...

Lawsky Presents Dynamic Drafting: A Tax Code Case Study Today at Michigan

Posted on February 10, 2009
Sarah B. Lawsky (George Washington) presents Dynamic Drafting: A Tax Code Case Study today at Michigan as part of its Tax Policy Workshop Series hosted by Reuven S. Avi-Yonah. Here is the abstract: This essay introduces the concepts of "static...

Senate Approves Stimulus Bill, 61-37

Posted on February 10, 2009
The Senate today approved the $838 billion economic stimulus bill, which includes $334 billion in tax incentives for individuals and businesses, by a 61-37, with Republican Senators Collins, Snowe, and Specter breaking rank to vote with the Democrats in support...

Cal Poly Seeks to Hire Tax Prof

Posted on February 10, 2009
California Polytechnic State University, Orfalea College of Business, invites applications for a full-time, academic year Assistant/Associate/Full Professor tenure-track positions in taxation beginning September 14, 2009. For details or to apply, see here...

More on Former Florida Law Prof's Discrimination Complaint

Posted on February 10, 2009
I previously blogged the complaint filed by Sherrie L. Russell-Brown, a law professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law from 2001-2007, alleging racial and sexual discrimination against the school and its dean. The post quoted a National...

Moneyball: The Movie

Posted on February 10, 2009
As regular readers of this blog know, I have long been intrigued by the application of Moneyball principles to law schools, beginning with my article, What Law Schools Can Learn from Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics, 82 Tex. L....

Time for a Washington, D.C. Tax Full Monty: Disclosure of Public Officials' Tax Returns

Posted on February 10, 2009
Joseph J. Thorndike (Contributing Editor, Tax Analysts) has published The Thorndike Challenge, 122 Tax Notes 691 (Feb. 9, 2009): The recent tax troubles of Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle, and Nancy Killefer (not to mention Charlie Rangel) raise a serious question:...

TIGTA Urges IRS to Address Worker Classification to Reduce Tax Gap

Posted on February 10, 2009
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has released While Actions Have Been Taken to Address Worker Misclassification, an Agency-Wide Employment Tax Program and Better Data are Needed: Misclassified workers are a significant portion of the employment tax gap...

Real Taxpayers of Genius

Posted on February 10, 2009
(Hat Tip: Kevin Gray.)

ABA Tax Section Offers Webcast Today on Report of National Taxpayer Advocate Olson

Posted on February 10, 2009
The ABA Tax Section offers a teleconference and webcast today on Report of the National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. EST: The ABA Section of Taxation is pleased to present a special 90-minute teleconference featuring Nina...

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